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Someone who submits only for the karma can already make lots of mediocre submissions and boost their karma far more than under a logarithmic scale. The only ca
by biot 16y ago
Someone who submits only for the karma can already make lots of mediocre submissions and boost their karma far more than under a logarithmic scale.
The only case I could see where your point is valid is if "karma abusers" withhold lower quality submissions in the hopes that they'll submit a really popular one. Do you know if they do this? Or am I misunderstanding the rationale?
- regularfry 16y agoThe maths is backwards. To take an example, if I submit two stories under a log2-scaled points system which get four upvotes, then if you submit a single story, that story needs to get 16 upvotes for you to match my karma. Assuming that people are chasing karma (let's leave why to the side for a second, because I don't understand it either), then it's far more efficient to submit lots of low-scoring stories than to even bother thinking about high-scoring ones.